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The Storm Call shout creates a heavy downpour, accompanied by a fierce thunderstorm directly above the Dragonborn that throws powerful bolts of lightning down upon anyone underneath, friend and foe alike.

This Shout will hit and most likely kill citizens, friendly characters and followers if used in a town, which will incur a massive bounty (if in a large city, up to 20,000 ). In addition, the Shout can only be used outside.

Friendly NPCs, such as Hold Guards, will sometimes turn hostile when in contact with the shout, even if the shout initially was not directed at them, due to the nature of the Shout attacking both hostile and friendly NPCs.

Alduin uses a variation of this Shout at the beginning of the game to destroy Helgen, in the first battle against Alduin atop the Throat of the World, and again in Sovngarde. Instead of a lightning storm, however, he summons a meteor shower. Through use of the console commandpsb on the PC version, the Dragonborn can access this unavailable Shout, along with several other "Dragon" variations of other Shouts.

The word wall for "Strun" was first displayed at Bethesda's booth at E3 2011. It is also the same word wall that the Skyrim Collector's Edition Alduin Statue features Alduin sitting atop. This can also be seen in a loading screen.

This may be a reference to the aforementioned unique shout he uses in-game being a variation of the Storm Call shout. It may also be a reference that "Heimverlund" is another name for Alduin who journeyed from Atmora ("the brutal north") to Skyrim, due to the word wall for "Strun" being found in Skuldafn, his base of operations, and where he jealously guards the portal to Sovngarde with the help of Nahkriin ("Vengeance").

At a recharge time of ten minutes (when using all three words of the Shout), this Shout has by far the longest cooldown period.

If the word wall at the Skuldafn ruins is skipped, it is impossible to get it again, since Skuldafn can only be visited once. For PC users, however, it can still be accessed via console commands.